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MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University women's basketball team suffered a 68-39 loss at Millersville University Friday night in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference crossover action from Pucillo Gymnasium.
Millersville, which entered the game as the top-ranked team in the PSAC Eastern Division standings, improved to 8-2 overall and 5-1 in league games with the win. Slippery Rock drops to 2-8 overall and 1-5 in league play.
Both teams opened the game slowly before the Marauders recovered and opened up a 33-16 halftime lead. The Rock cut the deficit to 15 early in the second half but would get no closer than that the rest of the way.
Millersville used a stifling defensive effort to hold Slippery Rock to its lowest scoring output of the season, its fewest field goals made and fewest shots attempted. For the third time this winter The Rock was held to less than 30 percent shooting from the field.
For the second time this season no Slippery Rock players managed to reach double figure scoring numbers. The Rock was led by an eight-point effort from
Erica Aiello, who also led the team with two assists.
D'Asia Chambers added seven points,
Erinne Cunningham chipped in six points and
Alexas Brown added five points.
Emilee Vitez was the top rebounder for SRU with five boards as The Rock was outrebounded 44-29 in the game.
Katie Rathman made her first appearance of the season and matched her career-high with two points.
Slippery Rock finished the game shooting 25.5 percent from the field (12-of-47), 20.0 percent from beyond the 3-point line (2-of-10) and had its best shooting night of the year from the free throw line, knocking down 92.9 percent (13-of-14) from the charity stripe.
Millersville placed three players in double figures, led by a double-double effort of 14 points and 11 rebounds from Aurielle Mosley. Celeste Robinson and Senada Mehmedovic tied for game-high honors with 15 points each.
The Marauders connected on 29-of-62 attempts from the field (46.8 percent), 6-of-17 from long range (35.3 percent) and a dismal 4-of-11 from the free throw line (36.4 percent). Neither team had a particularly good night handling the ball as the hosts turned the ball over 27 times and Slippery Rock gave it up a season-high 33 times.
The Rock will have little time to recover with another PSAC crossover match scheduled for tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at Shippensburg. After that, Slippery Rock will host crossovers against East Stroudsburg and Kutztown next Friday and Saturday before beginning divisional play Jan. 16 at Lock Haven.
